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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	david_n	deliver_v	saul_n	1,226	5	9.5281	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25703	An apology for the Protestants of France, in reference to the persecutions they are under at this day in six letters.; Apologie pour les Protestans. English.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1683 (1683)	Wing A3555A; ESTC R12993	127,092	130

mean no more by this their exception than what all Mankind ought to think in this matter if they have the fear of God before their eyes viz. That as God is King of Kings and by consequence to whom our Princes and we owe an indispensible Obedience without any reserve we must never admit of a dispute between the one and the other to obey the Orders of the Prince when they are contrary to those of God Provided the Soveraignty of God be kept inviolable that is to the end we diminish not the Soveraign power of God but that God be always owned for the King of all Kings it is absolutely necessary that in such a contrariety between his orders and that of the Prince we prefer his without any manner of hesitation To do otherwise would be to place the Prince in God's stead and so make an Idol of him This is all the Protestants would say But then I asked our Friend what would they have the Subjects do upon such occasions especially if Princes proceed to violence and punishing thereby to make themselves be obeyed with preference to God Methinks says he they explain themselves clearly enough when they say We ought to bear the yoke of subjection with a chearful and good will though our Princes were Infidels For an Infidel Prince signifies here a Prince that in his Laws and in his practice is opposite to the appointments of God is an ene●y and so a persecutor of the true Religion whenever he has a fair opportunity and is so disposed To say then as do the Protestants in their Confession of Faith that although Princes were Infidels we ought to bear the yoke of subjection is it not to declare it to be the duty of subjects to suffer quietly whatever their Prince pleases to inflict upon them Indeed they do not mean that we should exec●te the commands of Princes when they are contrary to the commands of God but on the other side they are not for casting off their Allegiance upon pretence that their Prince does not herein do his duty and is unjustly s●vere to them Whence it is plain from the Doctrine of the French Protestants that Christian Subjects upon these unhappy occasions ought to continue alike faithful to their God and to their Prince to their God in being careful to observe his Statutes in the midst of all the threats and outrages of men to their Prince by suffering with all humility and Christian patience whatever is imposed upon them either to torture their Conscience or force them to renounce their holy Religion Their worthy Calvin makes it evident that this was his opinion when from what the Scripture ordains to honor and ●ear the King he concludes that Christians are obliged to reverence even in the person of a Tyrant the mighty Character with which it hath pleased God to honor Crowned Heads For a Tyrant is an unjust and cruel Prince who thirsts after the Blood of his people and is always invading their Goods or Life or good Name Therefore when Calvin teaches that Christians ought to pay respect even in the person of these sort of Princes this mighty Character with which it hath pleased God to honor Kings it shews plainly that in his judgment whatever wrong or oppression a Prince commits upon his Subjects they remain always under an indispensible obligation of being subject to his Scepter so far from ever having a right to take up Arms to depose him or to set force against force It is the same which M●ses Amyraldus that famous Protestant of Saumur proves at large in his Discourse of the power of Kings upon the occasion of those unhappy Troubles which had so fatal an end and so reproachful to the Nation He m●kes it appear by undeniable proofs that nothing can be more pernicious to mankind more against the Word of God nor more opposite to the practice of Jesus Christ that of his Apostles the behaviour of the Primitive Christians and the very genius of Christianity than to assert a right for subjects to take up Arms against their King upon any pretence or ground whatever And it will not be amiss that I thereupon read to you a passage or two out of the Letter of the learned Bochart Minister of Caën to Doctor Morley Bishop of Winchester If one had any right to arraign a King says he why not Saul who had twice revolted from God who had slain with the edge of the sword a whole Town of the Priests of the Lord who had taken away Davids wife by force and given her to another and sought his innocent life after so many eminent Services done the State by this young Prince and who could pretend more to it than David who was appointed by God anointed and consecrated to the Government of Israel Yet David who was a Prophet and a man after Gods own heart was of another mind as we are assured by Holy Writ Saul seeking him in the desarts went alone into a Ca● where David lay hid who finding him in such a condition might as ●asily have killed him as Macrinus did Carcalla Nay one would think he ought not to have omitted so fair an occasion of ridding himself of his enemy especially when he was in a manner constrained to it by his own Souldiers who minded him of the Prophetick Promise God had made him to deliver his Enemy into his hand But he calmly disswades them by a sober reply to attempt nothing against Saul The Lord forbid says he that I should do this thing to my master the Lords anointed to stretch forth my hand against him seeing he is the anointed of the Lord that is to say A man that God has set apart for so Sacred and Divine a Charge if he make ill use of it as did Saul and such like nevertheless as he is a King he ought to be exempt from all Civil Punishment and left to the judgment of the last day In another place this Learned Person lays down for a Maxim That against the oppression of a King there is no humane remedy He maintains likewise That when Kings abuse their Power and treat ill their Subjects all ought to be remitted to Gods Iudgment-seat and in the mean time to have recourse to our Tears and Prayers which are saith he the weapons of a true Christian. Thus the Author of the Books called Les derniers efforts de Pinnocence assligè the last attempts of persecuted innocence who is a French Protestant very well known to the World and my particular Friend takes it for a Religious Principle and that which bears the Charact●r of the ancient Christian Moral That the King is Master of the exteriour part of Religion that if he will suffer none but his own if we cannot conform we ought to die without resistance because the true Religion is not to employ the Arm of Flesh to establish it in a flourishing condition That Princes become very guilty when they oppose